Tuvan Folk Music

I have never heard of this before. Amazing

Otherworldly is an apt word to describe Tuvan throat-singing.

Developed over centuries among the semi-nomadic herdsmen of Tuva, where they could sing to each other over long distances, the eerie vocalizations have long been a national passion in the land bordering southern Siberia. The singers use the larynx to simultaneously produce multiple tones.

As exotic as they are, however, the sounds and songs soon yield familiar points of reference. The ultra-low quaking tones that first emerged from the singers suggest cartoon voices, like Popeye chanting in measured phrases. The subsequent higher tones sound like a synthesizer or pleasantly modulating electric device.

And then there are the nature sounds, melodic representations of bird tweets, baying wolves, winds sweeping across the steppes and, above all, horses - key in Tuva's equine culture.